“Breathing Maze” is an interactive architectural machine that investigates the topic of “automated space” in architecture. The machine is able to respond to the individuals’ movements, serving as an automatic spatial divider for the users. Once the user approach one side of the device, the touch sensor will detect the movement of the user and activate the roller system and accordingly rise down to create a void for potential space, whereas the remaining ones serve as spatial dividers.

The hexagonal pattern’s flexibility is an ideal geometry to achieve a chain reaction, and each individual module allows a dynamic change in pattern. The project thereby provides a possibility to satisfy the diverse needs for spatial configurations, a kind of spatial configuration that breaths with the users.

In this group project, our group formulated the concept as a group. I am mainly responsible for mechanism designs and produce drawings to convey machine movement into diagrams and other 2D dimensional representations.